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<i>What should one know before moving to Canada? originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question.</i><p><b>Answer by Mike Barnard, Energy guy, former Canadian resident, on Quora.</b><p>Canada is huge. It's one of the biggest countries in the world geographically. Don't think you'll be able to quickly or …

You may not 'like' the answer<p>As social networks become more and more prominent in our lives, one has to wonder if we are happier being constantly connected. The Happiness Research Institute, an “independent think tank focusing on well-being, happiness and quality of life” in Copenhagen, quite …

Where to Invade Next, made in secret because of surveillance concerns, satirises ‘constant need to have an enemy to keep the military-industrial complex alive’<p>Michael Moore’s new film, Where to Invade Next, explores how the US government maintains a state of “infinite war”, according to the …

Hacking Team, the cybersecurity firm which saw 400GB of private data published on Sunday night in a humiliating hack, has been forced to advise customers to stop using its software while it assesses the damage caused by the leak.<p>A spokesman for the company recommended that clients, who are largely …

Apple may have banned selfie sticks at WWDC, but the company was today granted a patent revealing how future iPhones could be unlocked by snapping a quick photo of yourself.<p>Entitled “Low threshold face recognition,” the patent describes a means of “reducing the impact of lighting conditions and …

Encryption is a security technology that scrambles digital information using specialist mathematics. It makes it so only people in possession of a specific unlock key or password can read the encrypted information.<p>Encryption is used by several technology companies including Microsoft, Facebook, …